Homeless families without cars are referred by social-welfare agencies and driven to the church by volunteers.

Their problems have a heavy impact on their families and the social-welfare agencies of our city, public and private.

Half-starved, she was turned over to a social-welfare agency, which found her infected with two venereal diseases, which ones she can't remember.

Working for social-welfare agencies in New York, she tried some creative writing for television on the side.

His mother directs community services for the Council for Economic Opportunities of Greater Cleveland, a private social-welfare agency.

"It is an artificial distinction, between municipal and voluntary," said Judy Wessler, director of health advocacy for the Community Service Society, a large private social-welfare agency.

In conjunction with the operation, teams of workers from public and private social-welfare agencies will step up their efforts to get the homeless out of the subways and into shelters.

At that price, Citicorp's sale of 600,000 shares to two Saudi social-welfare agencies would be a deal worth about $336 million.

Family preservation: As concerns over illegitimacy began to decline in the early 1970s, social-welfare agencies began to emphasize that, if possible, mothers and children should be kept together.

Any efforts to get the homeless out of the subway and into shelters would be closely coordinated with teams of workers from public and private social-welfare agencies, Mr. Kiley said.